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Rat Girl
She calls herself Rat Girl, but she looks like a little Swiss doll. Now in the Chapel, she is singing…
SINFUL TANGO
Like a toddler lost in a laundry basket full of dirty towels, the Argentine music dances. Cuts through the candlelit…
Crafting From Beyond
Here’s something I want to confess: I’ve stopped trying. A curvier-beaked whale dies with a lump of plastic in its…
A Diptych at the Seaside
1. She collects seashells, three in a row. One domed, a Buddhist stupa; another hugs the ground, an earthworm after…
Mary the Obscure
The Marys—mothers, daughters, whores, saints, queens and killers—meet every Thursday afternoon in Riverside Park during the spring and summer months.…
The Rookery
The rookery is disguised as a shed. I keep a lawnmower and a pair of hedge trimmers for the sake…
Fig
For breakfast, Zip and I will eat a rancid jar of olives, a brittle feather from the windowsill, and a…
Fractured Lit 2021 Micro Contest Winners and Shortlist
Huge thank you to judge Matthew Salesses for reading and choosing the winners. This was definitely one of our most…
Everything Will Be Okay in the End
The ghosts have come looking for my maid, but the maid is not here. The maid is out back in…
Self-Portrait as Everything You’re Not
Blonde girls at school seek to become blonder. Blonde girls arrive with new highlights, preening at the way their faces…
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